Assaulting a police officer

That's the charge against Cecily McMillan, who was arrested two years ago during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Manhattan. She was beaten black and blue on her ribs and arms by the police until she went into a seizure. When she felt her right breast grabbed from behind, McMillan instinctively threw an elbow, catching a cop under the eye, and that is why she is being prosecuted for assaulting a police officer, a class D felony with a possible seven-year prison term. Her trial began this week.